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strangely twined in the net of
Diaspora history: Bathsheba
and Rowland Gideon and
Robert and Florence
Abrahams. They came to this
tropical isle for different
reasons, in very different
ages.
In a strange way, the ex-
istence of one couple called to
the other. And the other has
allowed them to live again;
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1988
has given them a measure of
immortality.
As the ferry left the island
of Nevis, I wondered if the
single physical remnant of
this Jewish community would
be consumed by the rampant
tropical foliage once again.
Would our memory of this
lost-and-found-again com-
munity be assured in the
future? 0
aifa — In time of war,
every nation imposes
a military censorship
on the press and on the news,
to ensure that no information
gets out which may possibly
be useful to the enemy.
Considering that there is
still a very real threat to
Israel both from Arab states
and from Arab terrorists, no
one should quarrel with such
censorship here. By and large,
the foreign correspondents
stationed in Israel unders-
tand and abide by the regula-
tions, though occasionally
some eager beaver reporter,
anxious to make a name for
himself, tries to smuggle out
reports which have not been
previously cleared.
About 15 years , ago, when
Israel's relations with Egypt
were still very tense, one
reporter broadcast the news
that an Israeli commando
force had attacked Egyptian
bases along the Gulf of Suez.
The report was true, but at
the time of the broadcast the
Israeli commandos were still
in action, and Egyptian head-
quarters got their first news
of the event from this broad-
cast, thus endangering the
success of the mission and the
lives of the participants.
In that particular case, the
correspondent was expelled
from Israel, and none of his
colleagues defended him.
In other, more recent in-
stances, there have been dif-
ferences of opinion between
the journalists and the censor,
though the latter insists that
only he is in a position to
judge what has security
significance and what not.
Much has been made of re-
cent censorship of the Arab
press here. The domestic
Jewish press is also censored,
and the only factors involved
in - banning publication are
those related to national
security, or items which con-
stitute provocative incitement
to riot. It sometimes appears
that the Arab papers go out of
their way deliberately to
publish anti—Israel items,
just to see how far they can go
with the censors.
The more responsible daily
papers have reached agree-
ment with the censors to
police themselves. Delicate
matters affecting national
security are deliberately
revealed to the Editors' Com-
mittee, and the latter, being
made aware of the sensitive
Much has been
made of the
censorship of the
Arab press here.
situation, are able to drop or
tone down reports submitted
by staff members. The agree-
ment is of course based on a
sense of patriotic loyalty by
the editors.
During the Arab street riots
in Gaza, Judea and Samaria,
some foreign correspondents
have claimed that they were
not afforded full freedom to
report. Yet anyone who has
seen television coverage of the
riots, can hardly believe that
all those pictures did clear
through Israel censorship.
The legal basis for govern-
ment censorship is the
Emergency Defense Regula-
tions enacted by the British
Mandatory Government in
the 1940s, and used at the
time against Jewish and
Arabic papers. Those regula-
tions are very broad in scope,
and give the censor power to
ban anything which he deems
prejudicial to public safety or
public order.
Conceivably they could be
used in time of crisis to ban
expression of certain political
views. Hence there have been
repeated calls for Israel to
scrap the old British laws,
and enact a new censorship
code designed to meet the
contemporary situation.
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